Aug 12, 2011

Belarus: A Tale of Two Elections

Rodger Potocki, NED Senior Director for Europe, writes in the July issue of The Journal of Democracy.

"Strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s suspiciously lopsided 2010 electoral victory—and subsequent crackdown on dissent—may seem like a repeat of the events of 2006, but much has changed in the interval, and his regime is much more precarious today."

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